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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The administration of Zimbabwe in concert with the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration has disbursed $33 million for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of major roads in Manicaland region. This is being utilized for regular street maintenance, with emphasis being given to the Mutare-Nyanga Road. Joel Biggie Matiza – Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, who was sightsee Cyclone Idai Recovery Projects in Chimanimani this week, asserted Government was devoted to exalting the country’s road system and would proceed to subsidize road improvement. “In the province, there are more works going on,” he stated. “Zinara has released about $33 million to date for roads....

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- An agro-processing startup in Nigeria focused on the local production of high-quality tomato paste for the African market, Tomato Jos, has secured a whopping €3.9 million to bolster growth. Tomato Jos will work with thousands of smallholder farmers on over 2,600 hectares of land, putting more than $1million of direct income into the local economy each year. Growth plans include the installation of a drip irrigation system and a processing plant that can produce 24 tons of finished product per day. Reacting to the development, Founder and CEO of Tomato Jos, Mira Mehta, in a recent statement made available on the company’s website, said: “Processing has always been the plan for Tomato Jos, but to get there, we spent a...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Administration of Rwanda will expend at slight Rwf1 billion on the repair of Mugogo lowland in Musanze and further locales in Nyabihu region that were devastated by torrents. This comes up this; intervention to resuscitate increases from multi-billion project in Musanze and Nyabihu neighborhoods which were being endangered by storms. Heeding continual flooding in the two districts, in 2014 the administration commenced to execute a $10 million project intended for, at creating modification to climate change effects. This was suggested to save the lowland on seventy-five hectares that have recently become a lake due to continual flooding. Nonetheless, for four years until 2018, the growers had been...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- The second Africa Regional Integration Index (ARII 2019) was launched by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), African Development Bank and African Union Commission (AUC), with a call to action to African economies to deepen integration. The 2019 Index, provided up-to-date data on the status and progress of regional integration in Africa in order to assess the level of integration for every Regional Economic Community (REC) and their member countries. The report showed that although 20 countries scored above average, no African country could be considered well integrated in its region. By these metrics, South Africa is Africa’s most regionally integrated country because it outperforms on productive and infrastructure...